Thus Spoke Kishibe Rohan

Great set ups for some interesting adventures but unfortunately the episodes end right when things are just getting interesting every. Single. Time.

In the regular Jojo series there's always an aspect of mystery when you encounter an enemy for the first time. The heroes use their wits and always manage to figure out the mystery eventually. This same mystery is present in this series here but the mystery is never solved.

All episodes are one offs and their stories are never addressed again after each episode. This makes each episode feel like the 1st half of a story only.

The only things i can appreciate from this show is the unique and ambitious art direction/design. other than that, all the other aspects technically and non are slightly below mediocre from the animation to the story/narrative.

Keeping this review simple and SPOILER free. This short series covers 4 stories told by or involving Rohan Kishibe, with each episode being a different story.

Each episode has a different twist and feels fresh watching whilst maintaining the Diamond is Unbreakable feel throughout (especially keeping with with Rohans character.)

It's a definite watch if you've watched at least Diamond is Unbreakable of JoJo, yet even so the story is pretty straight forward without that previous knowledge.

I absolutely love Japanese anime. Unfortunately, this did not make the cut. Although technically well done, the characters and their characterizations were completely a turn off. The story telling was nothing but pretentious tripe. Each episode had a number listed at the beginning. Apparently, a whole season of episodes was produced but only four of them were selected out of the season to air by Netflix. Episodes 1 through 3 didn't make the cut. The ones aired were not in order, confusing the ongoing storyline. It was so bad, they couldn't release anything but these four episodes, sacrificing any possibility of continuity. Thumbs down.

I love araki and anything Jojo, the guy has such a weird sense of humor and style. Thus spoke kishibe rohan has a very 'Goosebumps' feel to it. There are different short stories per episode. Great if araki ever wants to do something different, the guy is good at giving himself options. One thing I noticed though is that this is all supposed to be set around the year 1999-2000 and one woman is shown using a smart phone and there are flat screen TVs so there are some timeline Inconsistencies. I do hope they release more episodes in the future, david production also did a great job on this series.